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Meet Virginia’s Poets Special from The Poetry Society of Virginia Stuart C. Nottingham, a native of Norfolk, has lived in Fairfax County for more than forty years. After a lifetime of reading poetry he began writing at age sixty. Many of his poems touch on the relationship between white and black Americans. This poem was published in The Poets Domain, Vol. 10. Following the Rule (1941) A boy of ten walks the narrow meander of concrete between drifts of Bermuda grass. Virginia's sun shimmers off the tarmac, off the wall of a tobacco warehouse. An old colored man walks toward the boy, a hat shading his dark, wrinkled face. The old man steps into the gutter, takes off his hat and bows to the boy, who is first surprised, then bewildered by deference from an old man, who had followed the only rule he knew. For information about The Poetry Society of Virginia, go to www.poetrysocietyofvirginia.org, or write to: Poetry Society of Virginia, c/o Stuart Nottingham, 913 DeWolfe Dr., Alexandria, Virginia 22308. |
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